macvtap not working on rhel 6.1 x86 machine

Amit Tewari Amit.Tewari at nechclst.in
Thu Dec 15 09:21:09 UTC 2011


Hi all,

 

My test environment

Host os=rhel6.1 x86 machine

Guest os = rhel6.1

Libvirt=0.8.7

Kvm hypervisor

 

I am creating macvtap interface on host machine 

ip link add link eth1 name macvtap0 type macvtap

ip link set macvtap0 up

 

ip link show macvtap0

25: macvtap0 at eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500

    link/ether a2:70:4e:05:4a:4e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

 

 

Now when use arp -a to check macvtap0 hardware address entry it shows

? (10.0.7.1) at <incomplete> on macvtap0

 

 

If I assign ip address to macvtap and then ping on network , it says
"destination not reachable"

ping 10.0.7.1 -I macvtap0

 

PING 10.0.7.1 (10.0.7.1) from 10.0.1.61 macvtap0: 56(84) bytes of data.

From 10.0.1.61 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

From 10.0.1.61 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

 

 

If I use tcpdump -I eth1 it shows packets

14:42:39.967158 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.7.1 tell 10.0.7.4, length 28

14:42:39.967257 ARP, Reply 10.0.7.1 is-at 00:16:35:65:b5:1e (oui
Unknown), length 46

14:42:40.967167 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.7.1 tell 10.0.7.4, length 28

14:42:40.967229 ARP, Reply 10.0.7.1 is-at 00:16:35:65:b5:1e (oui
Unknown), length 46

 

So macvtap0 is unknown interface. Request does go to eth1 inteface.

 

Please let me know redhat 6.1 support macvtap or not?...

 

I have to use it for kvm virtual machine..

 

 

 




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